Using knowledge engineering support for a Java documentation viewer

  • Authors:
  • Henrik Eriksson;Erik Berglund;Peter Nevalainen

  • Affiliations:
  • Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The reuse of library components is a cornerstone of today's software development. Therefore, developers need good library documentation to take advantage of complex application programmer interfaces (APIs). It is possible to use ontologies as the basis for modeling libraries and library documentation. The knowledge-engineering tool Protégé can manage such library ontologies as well as knowledge bases containing the documentation. JDView is an extension to Protégé that allows developers to navigate and read the documentation contained in the knowledge base. The JDView approach illustrates how knowledge-engineering tools can enhance the representation and viewing of library documentation.